Today's post will be in sharp contrast to the "bear worries" post I did last night. I do think there is still some hope for us beleaguered equity bears, in spite of the fact that the apparent utter collapse of fiscal cliff talks has had virtually no meaningful effect on the market. I would have fully expect the S&P to be in an unmitigated free-fall by now, particularly given Boehner's "Up YOURS!" press conference today.
The fact is that the NASDAQ Composite is in a different world; the wedge is broken, and it's clinging tentatively to its former support level. Don't be surprised if the market does, in fact, head into a free-fall, surprising all the numb-nuts over at CNBC.
The Russell 2000 banged out a very nice doji today.
The S&P 500 – – which, against all sensibilities, is near a recovery high – – is still beneath its broken intermediate trendline. I will say that even a big plunge in the market probably won't get us anywhere below the lows set last month.
Another tally-mark in the bears' column is the Utility index, which is starting to fall away from a well-formed top.
One big question mark is the miners. If we can manage to break the long-standing trendline, which goes back to the 2009 bottom, it will be a jumping-up-and-down sell signal. That's a pretty big "if", though, since it has reliably bounced off this line in times past.
I leave you with the closing few minutes of the Young Ones series. This, my friends, is how the Cliff is going to end.
